WWE Intercontinental Championship

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The WWE Intercontinental Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary male championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE United States Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Chad Gable, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Penta at SummerSlam Night 2 on August 2, 2026. The championship was established by the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on September 1, 1979, as a result of the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship being unified with an apocryphal South American Heavyweight Championship, with Pat Patterson as the inaugural champion. It is the third-oldest championship currently active in WWE, behind the WWE Championship (1963) and United States Championship (1974), but the second-longest tenured championship, as WWE has only owned the U.S. championship since 2001. Although generally contested in the midcard...

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